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Sculpture of Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim, wearing pilgrim dress and reading a bible, Pittsburg, Texas
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With his brother Aubrey, Pilgrim opened a feed store in little Pittsburg. The sculpture appears outside the Pilgrim's Pride chicken-processing company's distribution plant, beneath a much bigger likeness of Bo Pilgrim, wearing traditional Pilgrim dress. Next to the seated figure is Pilgrim's pet chicken, "Henrietta," who was featured in company advertisements. Eventually called Pilgrim's Pride, the company became an international giant, now based in Colorado.
Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).
Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.